Of Counsel In the News - Sept. 2005.

| 9/1/2005

Holland & Knight has hired George Koehn, retired CEO of SunTrust Bank Florida, as a senior adviser...GrayRobinson in Tampa has acquired an alcohol beverage industry practice group consisting of 14 former Holland & Knight lawyers, consultants, licensing specialists and administrative assistants. The new team, which will also include a food law practice, will be headed by former Holland & Knight partner Richard M. Blau, who chairs the American Bar Association Committee on Beverage Alcohol Practice...Kelly O'Keefe, a partner with Broad and Cassel in Orlando, has been named the Florida Law Related Education Association's "Top Attorney for 2005" for her work with the association's high school mock trial and moot court programs...Joseph H. Lang Jr., a partner in Tampa's Carlton Fields law firm, has been elected to the American Law Institute, a Philadelphia-based organization that drafts model codes and legal reform proposals designed to simplify and clarify the law...Laurel Lockett, a partner with Carlton Fields in Tampa, has been elected to chair the city's Historic Preservation Committee.

Nobody crashed in Monday’s first hours of the new “wrong way” interchange in Miami. But that’s because Miami cops guided confused drivers in the manner of a first-grade teacher keeping wayward students in line on the first day of school.